1. ornamental stonework consisting of branching lines, typically in the upper part of a Gothic window
Usage: architecture
2. a delicate branching pattern resembling ornamental stonework

Examples

• The cathedral’s windows featured elaborate Gothic tracery.
• Stone masons carved intricate tracery into the church facade.
• The tracery of bare branches created beautiful shadows on the snow.
• Frost formed delicate tracery patterns on the windowpane.
• The architect studied medieval tracery designs for inspiration.
• Ivy grew in natural tracery up the garden wall.